Bill Passed By Congress To End "Crush Videos"

WASHINGTON â€“ Videos appealing to a sexual fetish by showing women killing small animals will be banned under legislation that cleared the Senate Friday and is heading to President Barack Obama for his signature.

The voice vote in the Senate followed a vote in the House on Monday to ban so-called crush videos that depict the abuse and killing of animals.

Congress banned such videos in 1999, but the Supreme Court earlier this year struck down the law, saying it was too broadly written and violated First Amendment free speech protections.

The more narrowly crafted bill going to the White House makes it a crime to sell or distribute videos that violate bans on animal cruelty by showing animals being burned, drowned, suffocated or impaled.

“Animal torture videos are barbaric and have no place in a civilized society,” said Rep. Gary Peters, D-Mich., one of the House sponsors.

“By promising to lock up the people who produce and distribute these videos we can work to put a halt to this horrendous practice.”

Crush videos typically show women, often barefoot or wearing high heels, stomping small animals to death.

Every state bans animal cruelty, but it has been difficult to apply those laws to crush videos because they often do not show faces, dates or locations.

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Comments

Oh dear God…what kind of a world is this? How can “people” be so cruel as to do such horrendous things to poor innocent animals? These are MONSTERS who should be DESTROYED!! And the Supreme Court struck down the law that banned videos with women in them smashing small dogs to death with their stilettos so men could sexually get off watching them!! SHAME ON THE SUPREME COURT OF THE U.S. This law better get signed by President Obama!!!!